Tempo is hiring a Security Engineer to build and lead our internal Red Team. In this role, you will treat our mainnet as a continuous challenge, proactively hunting for vulnerabilities across the Tempo protocol, consensus engine, and bridge architecture.
What You'll Do
- Proactively hunt for vulnerabilities in the Tempo protocol, consensus engine, and bridge architecture, treating our mainnet like a continuous CTF challenge.
- Design and implement security tooling and automation in liaison with the Foundry team to catch logic errors and edge cases.
- Partner with engineering teams to review critical architecture across our codebase.
- Analyze incentives and game-theoretic risks within the protocol, such as MEV and staking dynamics, to prevent economic exploits.
What We're Looking For
- Fluency in reading and writing production-level code in systems languages, with a strong preference for Rust.
- Deep expertise in EVM internals, including intimate knowledge of opcodes, storage slots, gas metering, and precompiles.
- Proven track record of offensive security, such as high rankings in CTFs, high-severity bug bounty submissions, or published research.
- Experience building custom security automation or tooling rather than relying solely on off-the-shelf scanners.
- Bleeding-edge knowledge of the latest blockchain security research, including recent hacks and how these could have been mitigated.
Technical Stack
- Rust
- EVM
- Foundry
Team & Environment
You will be a core member of our newly formed Internal Red Team. We're a team of crypto-optimists, building the infrastructure needed to bring real, substantial economic flows onchain. We like to move fast and swing for the fences.
